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i C » tb ing lesgons ?" Her Argument. "Going to drop your cooking lesâ€" sgons right in the middle of the course? W‘y,l heard yor got a proposal of nu{rhgq on the strength of going to cooking school," "I did, And now that I am goign to be married, what‘s th;o use of M.’_‘?i‘: _any further about . cookâ€" This fluid hitherto has been conâ€" sidered synonymous with all that is mild and peaceful. Advocates of preparedness have referred to "those milkâ€"andâ€"water pacifists." The "milk of human kindness" has no suggesâ€" tion of powerful stimulation. That the qualitiee of stimulation should be demonstrated on the fightâ€" ing men should commend the beverâ€" ago to those engaged in the pursuits of peace in parts of the world where Mars does not now rule. While alcoâ€" hol may fire the brain and dull the sgensibilities and thus impart a false courage, milk, according to learned scientists of the Pasteur Institute, MOHM the work of keying up the without affecting _ the keenness of his senses or the coolâ€" ness of his judgment, This is necesâ€" sary to the mode of warfare which this war has exemplified, but it is no less necessary to the man working in the office, in the studio, in the mill, on the farm or elsewhere in the battle for a living. 1 Milk has been used liberally to stimulate the French soldiers before they go into battle and its effects have been such that the French Govâ€" ernment has urged the sale of milk, in preference to other soft drinks, behind the trenches when the solâ€" diers go off duty for their spells of rest and recreation. French Discover That It Is a Powerâ€" ful Stimulant. The Pasteur Institute of Paris has just made the declaration that one of the most powerful stimulants known is milk. It has been in use for months now as the one stimulant for the French soldiers in the trenches, and its effect on them has amply justified the statement made by the famous institute in regard to it. A grouch is its own disagreeable It is the glory and greatness of democracy that it provides the widest possible field for training and selecâ€" tion of the exceptional man who is to serve in the time of extreme need. Careless of its latent riches and perâ€" haps rushing on its fate is the nation thet restricts the field too greatly. Had anyone predicted at the beginâ€" ning of the war the large part that the little Welshman would play he would have been regarded as insane. Were anyone to deny it now he would be thought even more insane. It is now clear that he was the one man in British public life preâ€"eminently fAisted to deal with the munitions probâ€" lem is the most vital of all his proâ€" motion to the secretaryship for war is logical. It also emphasizes the fact that these exceptional men whom nations somewhow find to serve them in their hour of need cannot be bred to order from any class or caste. They often come from the most unsuspected quarâ€" ters. _ What was at first regarded as their handicap ultimately proves to be their strength. _ In the retrospect it is plain that it was he exact sort of training required to fit them to ww‘lerstand and deal with the situaâ€" tlon. The appointment of Davir Lloydâ€" George as secretary for war to sucâ€" eeed the late Lord Kitchener again emphasizes the fact that Great Britâ€" ain realizes it has found the excepâ€" tional man whom great crises often produce to deal with tremendous naâ€" tional problems. But when all this is done, the fact still stands out that after wentyâ€"three months of the worst war in history the responsible leaders of Europe are no nearer the readjustments which might make for acontinued peace than they were on that day in August, 1914, when the impossiblo{)ecame pos* wible aml! destruction undreamed of was begun. Metternich might have uttered the same sentiment in 1814 at Vienna, and have found himself in accord with the spirit of his century. â€" But surely Europe has learned something useful for peace during the last hundred years. It cannot be that the frightâ€" ful sacrifices of the last two years are to leave the world no whit wiser, The very prominence of Prince von Bueâ€" low obviously is a limitation on his freedom to speak fankly. His conâ€" nections naturally make it inadvisâ€" able for him to let anything fall which might be used against his country when the time for diplomatie barâ€" gaining arrives. . This necessary disâ€" count must be remembered in considâ€" éring his statement. land and water, and we, on our part, must meet this condition. Assvrance, however, can be obtained g:n the expressions of Prince von ow, whose prominence as a diploâ€" mat gives almost the "Inspired" Banction of officialdom to his words: We must make ourselves stronger and harder to be attacked on our bordâ€" trs and coasts than we were at the beginning of this war. â€" Our enemica, too, will strengthen armaments on might be limited, and that the endâ€" less competition of military and naval programs might be abandoned. Small NOTES ANDCOMMENT 8 The tone of Prince von Buelow‘s new book on "German Policies"â€"acâ€" cording to the cabled excerptsâ€"is flisquieting to those who had dreamed if another kind of peace when the t conflict will have ceased. Peace E:" all over the nations have been ping that new machinery for the Working oat of international justice might be devised, that armaments MILK AS A BRACER. Ratcatils : un on d nc marrad e n u: them in fl!w paste} tones so much favored summer. These are worn with frocks of dark linen or serge, and with the tailored suit. Street Dress with Caps, crepe, Georgette and neb; many of There are attractive sets of Quakâ€" er collar and the various other models, with cuff‘s to match, in lawn, organdy, The jabot frill of chiffon, net, picotâ€" edged Georgette, or organdy is an efâ€" fective accessory with the tailored suit; it is worn oftentimes with the coat, and then again it is a part of the blouse. The jabot blouse is one of the popular models of the season. Perhaps the very newest idea in neckwear is the shoulder cape of white, black, Java brown, or other favored shade, of crepe Georgetbe, trimmed with bands of ermine, beaver, or moleskin. _ The shortâ€"haired furs are preferred for these capes. While these rovelties are a bit absurd, atill, they are effective and becoming, and afford quite a tit of warmth, worn in the evening over the sheer lingerie frock or the fAilmy dance dvress. 7255â€"7240 ' Satin Afternoon Dress of modish low shoes, on the Oxford type, which may be appropriately worn with the tailored suit or dress for street and business wear. What‘s New in Neckwear Neckwear is particularly interestâ€" ing this summer. The various colâ€" lars and jabots now modish offer limitless ways of charging or brightâ€" ening up afrock or blouse. s"VCo, INEN and Jow, for tennis, goli, | and similar sports; substantial lookâ€"! ing shoes for walking mountain climbâ€"| ing and the more strenuous of outâ€" ofâ€"door purposes. These come in tan or black and lend themselves to| and appropriate outâ€"ofâ€"door costume. For those who favor the flabâ€"heeled, broadâ€"toed shoe, there are a number shoes are fiart.icularly charming, beâ€" ing low of heel, broad of toe, and most comfortable as well as chic. There are rubberâ€"soled and heeled canvas shoes, high and low, for tennis, golf, from the bright girdle, the touch of colo# at the throat. *o \ns?-fitflnt bpump, or boot, daint-{ B s anki tlovnanll the wideâ€" Ing hat which touches, the it. self might fall short of expectations. l Summer Footweat ] Although the high laced boot was chic and becoming with the short taiâ€" lored skirt, and is still afavorite in white canvas, buckskin, and the soft gray and tan leathers, the low shoe is much in demand. _ The oldâ€"time pump with huge buckle and more or less exaggerated tonrue, according to ‘persoml fancy, is a general favorite. These are equally modish in the sull calf or brl:l:t patent leather. Ah-i other favorite in low shoes is the perâ€" fectly plain pump of calf or patent leather. _ This is made with a nth-‘ er long vamp and fits amoothly over the instep, being finished with â€"a bow of leather, a small buckle, or no ornaâ€" ment at all. _ There is varlety in heels also; the medium high heel is generally favored for street wear, the French heel for evening, and there is a comfortable and good looking low heel for those who do not care for t} higher one for stheet wear. _ Sport the littie things of dfiu wich dount in Ju wardrobe. e fi»f lingâ€" erle frock gathers much of its charm In the summes 3 mss en 1B t A ‘n: e ;"‘b,:‘:‘o e sheor lqi:g'- . «_ [ street frock, but the open throat | is | s rsmns | 5o Cs _ [ smatl, a high eotlar must At perfectly, newest idea _ in oulder cape of brown, or other crepe Georgette, A dogâ€"bite should be well cauterisâ€" ed with lunar causticâ€"nitrate of silver; and solid permanganate of potash is recommended: for applicaâ€" tion after the bite of a venemous snake. But l imagine that failing the presence of these agents prompt and free use of the glycerime of carbolic acid would answer nearly as well.â€"A Physician. A cut onion is a very efficient antiâ€" dote to the wasp sting. â€" Hazeline has a great reputation for service generâ€" ally after insect bites. Armed with this you can fearlessly encounter the onslaught of the insect which Mark Twain, travelling in Switâ€" zerland, was led to identify with the "indigenous chamois" of the travelâ€" books; but which otherwise passes ns the lively flease. _ All bugs, wasps, and bee stings, the bites of gnats on midgzes, may be fearlessly encounterâ€" ed., Does anyone remember the elaâ€" borate diagram which for many years occupied a prominent position in the central hall of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington; and which explaina@! to you that the midge did not bite, and could not bite, beâ€" eause it had no mouthâ€"organs for the purpose? That has since been removed; and it was time. About the most reliable and allâ€" round remedy for bites and stings of every kind is glycerine of carbolic acid; without a libtle bottle of which no one should attempt any long jourâ€" ney, or travel to any great extent. Ib is best to get the chemist to make you some specially, adtdling one part of liquified carbolic acid to five parts of glycerine. A preparation so named is official; but it has been spoilt by the addition of water. The diagnosis of apoplexy is not alâ€" ways easy, aryl when a personâ€"esâ€" pecially one past youthâ€"is found unâ€" conscious or in a partial stupor, a physician shoulid be called at once, since he alone is competent to say what is causing the attack. _ It may be a simple fainting fit; it may be due to some form of kidney trouble, or the sufferer may have fallen and injured his skull,. _ Whatever may be the underlying cause of the condition â€"apoplexy or something elseâ€" the patient must be kept perfectly quiet. When you await the arrival of the physician it is well to remove quietâ€" ly atight collar or any other conâ€" stricting garment.â€"Youth‘s Companâ€" ion. The type of seizure depenyis on the spot in the brain where the rupuared vessel is, the size of the hemorrhage, ‘and the slowness of rapidity with which the blood flows. _A severe "stroke" is usually fatal ,but many people have slight ones, from which they recover to lead useful and happy lives for anumber of years. The most striking symptom in such cases is the paralysis that the attack leaves behind it. _ It is generally of he hemâ€" iplegic type; that is to say, it affects only one side of the body, and someâ€" times, in very slight cases, only one limb or set of muscles. _ Speech is often affected, so that the sufferer answers questions slowly and with efâ€" fort, and cannot always find the right word. A when a blood vessel gives way and permits the blood to flow into the brain,an apopletic or paralytic stroke occurs. _ That may happen to a perâ€" son apparently in good health, alâ€" though often the sufferer has preâ€" viously complained of heawrlaches or dizziness, or has seemed drowsy, or has shown signs of unwonted irritâ€" ability. _ The attack itsolf is generalâ€" ly abrupt; the sufferer, engaged in his usual tasks of amusements suddenly complains of a pain in the head or a feeling of illness; almost immediateâ€" ly he becomes unconscious. _ Some cases are more gradual in their onset, and may not even cause unconsciousâ€" ness at all, in these cases the paralyâ€" sis, some degree of which always acâ€" companies these atacks, appears while the patient is perfectly aware of what is happening. In still other cases the attack begins with mental confuâ€" sion, which passes gradually into unâ€" consciousness and finally into deep coma. \ 'MM with sports blouse _ or Buttons and buckles must not be forgotten in the summer scheme, for they are becoming daily more and more important. The dark serge frock has a row of satinâ€"coverei buttons, zysually in a contrasting colâ€" or, from collar to hem, or a row from shoulder to wrist. _ Ib is predicted for fall that we will wear button boots again, and that not only will they have the single line of butbons at the closing, Hit a double row. These patterns may be obtained from your local MeCall dealer â€" or from The McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Ont. Dept. W. crosdg’ in back and tying in front or at the side front, in a loose knot, is a great favorite. These sashes are usually made of the same material as the dress, or of satinn _ Ends are finished with a tassel or a bead deâ€" sign. _ For lingerie frocks and dance dresses the wikie ribbon girdle or the silk or satin sash is modish. Dresdâ€" en ribbons, with the design worked out in metallic threads, are worn conâ€" siderably with dance and evening The strictly tailored suit is comâ€" pleted with a narrow leather belt, or a stitched belt of the material contrast. These girdles and sashes are offered in great variety in the shops uui belts are once more comâ€" ing into favor. With the trim tailâ€" oredâ€"dress of serge or linen, the narrow, flat sash encircling the walst. SMATL, & coliar must fit perfectly, -.-.a Inlwl;leh adjufi es and es are another means of introjucing abit of color contrast. g’hne girdles and sashes Stings and Bites. HEALTH Apoplexy. "Looky yere, boss; if you‘s axin‘ jes‘ out o‘ inquisitiveness, tain‘ no use o‘ wastin‘ time, an‘ if you‘s holdin‘ an‘ investigation, you‘s got to staht in by provin‘ dat I had any chicken in de fust place." A Cautious Witness,. "Where did you get that chicken you hadl for dinner yesterday ?" 11. During this time he is usually supposed to have written the two letâ€" ters to Thessalonica. _ 10. So Paul‘s "fear" at this time was partly of personal violence, but more of another failure, discrediting the gospel. Much peopleâ€"The latâ€" tber word is specially used of God‘s own "people." Compare 1 Pet. 2. 10. 9. That the Lord Jesus vouchsafed him a special message of encourageâ€" ment is a fresh sign of the depression under which he was sufferig. (Comâ€" pare 17 Cor. 2. 3.) 8. Crispusâ€"He and Gaius and the family of Stephenas wore the only Corinthians whom Paul personally baptized (1 Cor. 1. 14, 16); compare note on verse 48, Lesson Text Studies for April, . 16. Believed the Lord (margin)â€"That is, believed the gosâ€" pel to be true. 7. Apparently Paul left Aquila‘s house, not because of disagreement with him and Priscilla, but because the move to a Gentile lodging, conspicâ€" ously near the synagogue, would bring home to the Jews the significance of his action. _ The next verse shows that there was one prominent Jew at least who took the warning. Titusâ€" Read Titius,, a surname (nomen), not £ prsenomen, or "Christian name," as we should call it. 6. Reviled (margin)â€"So read. Your blood [is] upon your own headsâ€"So read. The words are a solemn deâ€" claration, not a curse. | 5. See note on verse 15, Lesson Text |Studieu, July 2. Constrainedâ€"The word of 2 Cor. 5. 14. _ The verb is in }the continuous tense, but it seems to ‘describe a new campaign of evangelâ€" ism which began when his comrades returned. _ Their report of work done in Macedonia may well have kindled him afresh, after the deep discourage ment under which he began his minâ€" istry in Corinth (1 Cor. 2. 8). No wonder he felt it acutely, as a genius and a scholar, when he was cut short with jeers in the intellectual metropoâ€" lis, _ He could only devote himself to necessary toil for daily bread, and a seemingly unsuccessful weekly arguâ€" ment in the synagogue. The coming of his friends gave him new courage and zeal. Compare 2 Cor. 7. 6. It is always well to remember that Paul[ was very human, and liable beyond | most men to suffer under emotional strain. ‘ 4. Sought to persuadeâ€"Or pleaded with; the margin is important, and ought never to have been excluded. )hudly complete if thereyis nowhere a woman‘s hand! Olaucrusâ€"-Empcror A. D. 41â€"54. _ "He expélled the Jews from Rome for perpetual riots, under the instigation of Chrestus," says Buetonius, his biographer; and it is lgonerally believai that this is a mudâ€" dled notice of Jewish persecution of [those who declared Jesus to be "Chrisb"â€"a name the Romans could not understand. _ The Jews were soon back again (see Acts 28. 156). 3. Paul had a trade, though a wellâ€" toâ€"do man‘s son, for the rabbis lald down the healthy maxim that one who did not teach his son to work taught him to be a thief. He came to need it when his father cut him off on his becoming a Christian, according to the probable conjecture noted earlier. The iniustry was a staple one at Tarâ€" sus, whose special breed of goats supâ€" plied the material for weaving this coarse cloth. We can picture Paul talking to his workmates through long hours of manual labor, and reâ€" warded by the winning of his most valued helpers. 2. Jewâ€"It seems to be suggested that he and his wife were not yet Christians; more economical conditions in daily work gave them an obvious motive for joining together. _ Prisâ€" cillaâ€"Except here and in I Cor. 16. 19, she is always (four times) named first â€"a very unusual practice, suggesting that in birth, or more probably in brains and character, she was the "better man." ‘The conjecture that she wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews has everything to recommend it. Less than two centuries later, Origen deâ€" clared that only God know who worte it; and a woman‘s authorship best acâ€" counts for the suppression of the name needed in 18. 23. Sho was evidently & commanding personality, and we may well believe her capable of such a *Lavork. The Book of Humanity is THE SUNDAY LESSON Verse 1. Corinthâ€"The chief comâ€" mercial city of Greece, and still notorâ€" iot_:_n for profligacy. 18. 1â€"22, Geolden Text "TAR AND FEATHERS." __zâ€"JLondon OpiniQ 4 INTERNATIONAL LESSON JULY 23. Acts 18. 0. TORONTO any money!" age of female wage. earners, which, according to statistics of the year 1912, was oneâ€"fourth of the total number of employed in commercial and industrig] establishments subject to inspection by the Labor Departâ€" ment. The edditional million excess feâ€" male population will be obliged, in rart at least, to aum)ort, themselves, ncreasing considerably the percentâ€" Expected That There Will Be a Majority of 1,750,000 in France. The latest statistics of the French Labor Department show that while women outnumbered men in France before the war by 756,682 (in a total population of 39,602,258), the war will probably decrease the number of men at least a million, giving the women a majority of 1,750,000. l "Matters are, of course, quite difâ€" ferent in the west. Even the wildest ‘pettifogger cannot assert that there is a work of liberation to be acâ€" complished in â€" Belgium _ and _ in France; that there are here peoples groaning under foreign rule, and that freedom must be brouht to them by the German sword. In the west the principle which the Chancellor rightâ€" ly proclaims for the east would signiâ€" fy not liberation but conquestâ€"not the freedom of peoples from foreign rule but their subjection to foreign rule. The artificial reference to the long opâ€" pressed Flemish races cannot deceive one about the true state of affairs. The question of the national development of the Flemish is a Belgian domestic question, which the Flemirigs themâ€" selves regard as such, and for which they seek no help from abroad. Wheâ€" ther Walloons or Flemings, both races feel themselves to be Belgians and see their salvation only within the frameâ€" work of an independent Belgium." Teuton Conquest Means Subjection Not Freedom. Austria does not always see eye to eye with her ally, Germany. While the Austrian censorship sympathizes with the antiâ€"Russian tendencies of Chancellor Von Bethmannâ€"Hollweg, it does not permit discussion of the Polish question. As to Belgium, the Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung is permitâ€" ted to write as follows: The official flag of St. Andrew‘s Society at St. John, which was over one hundred years old and which was lost for four years, has been found. _ Preparations are being made by the C.P.R. to handle more freight than ever before at West St. John. Capt. J. E. Bernier, of Quebec, the wellâ€"known _ Arctic explorer, has sailed for the Arctic on his own ship, the Guide. He expects to be gone 15 months. Capt. J. B. Lambkin, with his son and daughter, all of St. John, are in the service of the Empire. Miss Lambkin was honored with the Royal Red Cross Medal and Ribbon from H.M. Kirts George. The British Admiralty gives great praise to Capt. Blanchard Henry of the Ionian. Capt. Henry‘s home is in Montreal, but he and his wife came from Pictou, N.S. An automobile carrying three men was struck by a T.C.R. train at Marysville, N.B., and cut completely in two. The men were hurled forty feet and sustained serious injuries. Lanceâ€"Corp. A. Ballard, of St. John, N.B., who has joined the 104th Battalion, is one of six brothers to don the khaki. The other five have fallen at the front. On the Way to St. John from Haliâ€" fax the Durango, near the southeast edge of St. Peter‘s Bank, passed a dory containing the dead bodies of two fishermen. James Gilbert Walker, a former bank clerk of Pictou, .8., has been killed in action. He had been recomâ€" mended for the D.C.M. Miss Jennie Currie, daughter of Rev. A. W. Currie, of Penobsquis, was struck by a C.P.R. train and later died of injuries. AUSTRIAN VIEW OF BELGIUM. Father‘s Good Humor. "Father went off in agood humor All Sackville, N.B., turned out to bid farewell to the 145th Battalion, C. E. F., which had been quartered there all winter. Corporal A. C. Stokes, of Moncton, was seized with cramps while in swimming and _ was _ unconscious when rescued. Mr. Peter Collins, awh elderly genâ€" tleman of Fredericton, saved a fourâ€" yearâ€"old boy from drowningz. Charlottetown fishermen reported g(ood catches of mackerel from St. argaret‘s Bay, Shad and Blindo?ay. Mrs. John hoblnson, wife B stoker on board H.M.S. Niobe, died suddenly last _ week of carbolic poisoning. Farmers at Sackville, N.B., are beâ€" coming alarmed at the dlsu{roua inâ€" vasions of the army worm. . _ Henry B. Gordon, an I. C. R. conâ€" ductor for thirtyâ€"six years, died in Moncton of locomotor ataxia. Thos. W. Morrison, Public Works Department, St. John, died suddenly. Death was due to heart trouble. Henry Brown, an aged man of Btanhope, fell 41 feet from a railway bridge and was killed. 7 The Minto Coal Company‘s mines at Minto are again shut down by A strike by the miners. g Lapped By Waves of the Atlantic. Lieut. C. M. Cameron, son of Conâ€" troller Cameron of Sydney, was killed in action. 3 From the Ocean Shore MORE WOMEN THAN MEN. ;norninf," observed the daughter eavens!" exclaimed the mother to ask him for to perfection. _ Literally that very thing is being worked out in our comâ€" mercial life. _ Every country has its agricultural college where the treatâ€" ment of the earth so as to make it more and more productive is the subâ€" ject of most thorough scientific study, that it may bring some and much and more fruit to perfection. The Church‘s Problem. A similar process is being applied to men. You expect your boy to be aproducer some day. And the city and BState unjertake to help you reâ€" alize your expectation by the work of instruction and education. And the business world is looking with growâ€" ing confidence to the universities to deliver men with a training of mind that they may be enabled to carve outb as with a keen edged tool a rich suc. Preâ€"eminently the Church‘s problem is in dealing w{th the personal life of men. @‘is the hardened soilâ€" duibb, phi hies, isms. Ignoronce menlh © edvee m acal t P B t However faithful "the sower" and however good "the seed," the parable from which the text is baken would seem to emphasize the fact that they are without effect unless the soil be prepared for the one and adapted to the other. _ We are reminded in the story that of the soil upon which the seed fell some of it was so well trodâ€" den that it is hard, some is not hard but shallow, and some of it is overâ€" grown with brambles, which in their vigor of root sap the soil of its vitâ€" ality and richness. _ None of them is gooyâ€"they bring no fruit to perfecâ€" tion. In so far as the parable points a duty, that duty would seem to lie in bringing to a degree of efficiency the producing agency in which the sower may sow his seed, which he may reaâ€" sonably expect shall bring some fruib "They bring no fruit to perfection." â€"St. Luke, viil., 14. THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER W. J. Munro, veteran train disâ€" patcher of the C.N.R., has arrived in The Northern Saskatchewan Comâ€" pany of the 183rd Battalion left Sasâ€" katoon last week for Camp Hughes. Donald Black, of Calgary, secured a scholarship for high standing in class work at Alberta University. Regina citizens interested in better education, held a mass meeting in the City Hall prior to a Better Schools Day. Mrs. R. M. Entwistle, a well known pioneer resident of Moose Jaw, is Frank Cline, a one time resident of Lethbridge, died at Great Falls. The Banff road is again in good shape and open to traffic. $ From the Middle West Items BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRIâ€" TISH COLUMBIA. than the calves, and took care of them and seemed to feel the responsible for thoer:tfety. In the course of time Blackie and White Face were turned out with the other calves of their own age, and Dan was not happy. He watched for a chance to get back When they grew old enough to eat grass they had become so fond of one another that they refused to be sepaâ€" ratel, and nibbled the grass side by side all day long. Dan and the calves, Blackie ang White Face, used to run over the fielis together in the summer sun and chase one another and play what lookâ€" ed like games of tag. When they were tired they would sit, down in the shade or stand as close together as possible with their noses resting on one another‘s backs. They were as good friends as if they had been real children instead of just a colt and two ealves. Men‘s Souls Constitute the Soil Into Which the Church Seeks to Implant the Word of God. they got old enough to feed themâ€" selves they drank their milk from the same pail. School children will be factors in ho Calgary Fair this year. Dan never knew any mother except the big bottle that the little girl at the ranch house held for him whenever he was hungry. That was because Dan was a pony colt whose real mothâ€" er was needed for work in the fields, And he knew no brothers or sisters, except two calves that were also motherless. The colt and the calves fed togethâ€" er from the bottle at first, and when Joseph superstition have Ontario Boys and Girls Are Dan and His Friends. was a colt. he knew more Francis Taylor. road. _ The roots run out and interâ€" lace throughout the soil and restrain the earth from flipping down the emâ€" bankment, Obviously nothing else, not even grass, may grow there. Take the overwrought business man who spends his leisure in indulgence in the things which sap his life, or the man with just a little more than enough to cover his actual needs and who uses the surplus upon what he calls plewâ€" sure, but which sericas men charactâ€" erize as the pastime of a fool. Isn‘t ib natural to assume that any chance seed calculated of itself to develop inâ€" to religion would be choked to death by the life sucking vigor â€"Araining by the life sucking, vigor drain power of these alleged pleasures the world? What about the soilâ€"~ men and womenâ€"as we know our own immortal lives? It is hbard, ahallow_. choked? â€" Many, alas! bring wise! _ The thorny vines, with their brilliant splashes of color, are only incldental to the purposes of the railâ€" Rose Vine Roots. On either sijle of the tracks of a railroad leading out of a certain city there have been planted thousan< brailing rose vines festooned with glorious blooms,. _ "How splendid a treatment of an unsightly problem!" one might say. . Ah, yes; but how wise! ‘The tharme winon asith .ls ers over night, and bywfioc:d_o)h'qn wt.t_herod and died, _ And there is the word of God falling upon its flinty surface can bring no fru‘t to perfecâ€" tion. _ And there is the shallow soil, It gathers in the seed, and from that seed there shoot out tiny roolets which grip themselves into the soil, but not to any depth. It produces a sort of fruit, a sort oLf nondescript religion( or something that passes for reilg-'lo‘n; “.:“puny, dckly_nnflwentdity which looks well enough on a dui’_sii;&;-g,'i;:;vu~ith- soil overgrown with nettles. and forth again and taken to the lockup and the ne#t day, sentenced to three months {&@ utâ€" tering seditious cries. yelled: "Vive la France! Vive Ir A couple of Germans 4 him at once He was har The interâ€"provincial conference of representatives . of the _ western branches of the Patriotic Fund met in Regina. Delegates from all the Westâ€" ern Provinces were present. Lewis Daniel French, for 39 years manager of the North Canada Lumâ€" ber Co., Ltd., died last week in Prince Albert after a bricef illness. Rev. Frank Forster, a graduate of Manitoba University, has been recentâ€" ly appointed chaplain for the 209th Overseas Battalion. Mrs. Arnold George, a patient of Elmwood Sanitarium, jumped from a thirtyâ€"foot verandzh and has not been found. Winnipeg, and will be chief dispatcher The little girl says that when she grows big enough she is going to have him to ride.â€"Youth‘s Companion he came little by litte to like all of the cows nearly as much as he liked his two special friends. When | it was time to drink be led them all to the pond, ani if they did not go fast enough to suit him he would" trot round to the rear and nip the flanks of the stragglers, to hurry them. But those who w‘.tched him carefulâ€" ly could see that he never nipped White Face or Blackie. _ He liked them a little better than he liked the other calves, and he still liked the lis tle girl who fed him when he was litâ€" tle. â€" Whenever he heard her calling, ‘Come, Dannie, Dannie, Dannie, come to .me!" he would trot up to her and put his soft nose into her hand and let her pet him. _ Bo Dan was allowed to stay with the calves,. _ As they grew up together with his old friends. _ One day he found the bars down, and ran out of the corral toward the cattle range as fast as his four legs could carry him. He soon foum} Blackie and rubbed his nose over her cheeks, and then hunted out White Face and greeted her in the seme way. "Then be began to feed on the grass. _ The same thing hapâ€" pened two or three times before the little‘ls':'l, who had fed him heard of it. she said to her fathor: "I think he is homesick for White Face and Blackic. _ Please let him stay with flwll_!" It. Naturally. "He‘s avery polished gentleman." "That‘s why he shines "All right," he replied. _ "We‘ll try again until the in for 1U] It Enten d